H Quotes
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“Hope is a renewable option:
If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”
“Hope is a risk that must be run.”
Source: Last Essays
“Hope is a seed we plant, the wings we grow. If we ever want to see olive trees return to Palestine- if we ever want to see our trees and our people return- we must plant this hope. Across Gaza, and across the world.”
Source: Where the Olive Trees Return: by Fatimah A. Bass
“Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.”
“Hope is a sincere faith.”
“Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vague lightning flashed overhead. In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes. But they are of the same essence: they are the mind's indispensable relationship with other minds, with the world, and with time. Without trust, a man lives, but not a human life; without hope, he dies.”
Source: City of Illusions
“Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vague lightning flashed overhead. In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes, But they are of the same essence: they are the mind's indispensable relationship with other minds, with the world, and with time. Without trust, a man lives, but not a human life; without hope, he dies. When there is no relationship, where hands do not touch, emotion atrophies in void and intelligence goes sterile and obsessed. Between men the only link left is that of owner to slave, or murderer to victim.”
Source: City of Illusions
“Hope is a slow business.”
“Hope is a song in a weary throat.”
Source: Dark testament: and other poems
“Hope is a stance, not an assessment.”
“Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories”
Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big
“Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.”
“Hope is a stowaway that travels with serving. It may not be seen or even imagined, but it's there working in concert with serving, doing its therapeutic part. And here's the bonus--hope last longer and offers to produce additional results.”
“Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Hope is a strange thing, don't you think? It can pull you out of your darkest thoughts, but also leave you destroyed if that hope turns into nothing greater.”
Source: A Cruel Thirst
“Hope is a strange thing. It flickers like a candle flame, wavering when you least expect it and yet refusing to die completely.”
“Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.”
Source: Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
“Hope is a strong anchor for any storm.”
“Hope is a talent like any other.”
Source: Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson
“Hope is a terrible thing. It makes you sink ever deeper into the darkness.”
Source: Toward Eternity
“Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than where they are. For many it's a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don't have a choice. No and that's awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it.”
“Hope is a terribly dangerous thing, for what if that which we so passionately hope for never comes to pass? What if the healing never comes, the relationship is never restored, the dream can’t be revived, and the horror of the inevitable remains horribly inevitable? These things I pondered. And yet, standing in a forest forced silent by the bitter hand of winter I was reminded that spring is never deterred despite how bitter winter’s hand might be. For it is not the ‘hope’ of spring. Rather it is the ‘fact’ of spring. And therefore we must remember that hope is fact despite how bitter the hand of life.”
“Hope is a thing with feathers”
“Hope is a timid smile from fate, rewarding those who pursue everything they can achieve.”
“Hope is a torturous thing. It wrenches one from despair just long enough to allow one to take a breath before plunging her back beneath the icy waters. If it wasn't for those breaths, it would be easy to let ice claim the soul. Easy to let surrender swallow the struggle. But hope - cruel mistress that she is - is not satisfied with so neat an ending. Like a house cat with a tiny prisoner, she wants only to torment the soul again, and again, until it dies from a burst heart.”
Source: Give Your Heart to the Barrow
“Hope is a very thin diet.”
Source: The squire of Alsatia. Bury fair. The amorous bigot. The scowrers. The volunteers
“Hope is a very unruly emotion.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.”
Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“Hope is a waking dream.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start to wake from a dream you don't want to leave. That crushing sensation in the center of your chest, like you are losing an important piece of yourself you won't ever get back.”
“Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.”
“Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.”
“Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.”
Source: Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
“Hope is a working-man's dream.”
“Hope is affirmation of positive thoughts.”
Source: The Wings of Hope: Survivor
“Hope is all any of us really have. We hope to find love. Hope to find freedom. And the greatest hope is to survive the worst of days.”
Source: carnal transgression
“Hope is always near to those who believe."` [pg 44, Sir Edward”
Source: Firebolt
“Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.”
“Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.”
“Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.”
Source: Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson
“Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.”
Source: The People, Yes
“Hope is an enthusiastic assurance.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Hope is an essential constituent of human life.”
Source: Animal Magnetism
“Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.”
“Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.”
“Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Hope is an opiate, not a plan.”
Source: Dark Age
“Hope is as foreign to him as it is to me, and he's circling it. Poking it with a stick. Seeing if it's still breathing, and refusing to get excited until he knows it's the real deal.”
Source: Unchosen: A YA Fantasy Standalone Where One Girl's Lie About the Chosen One Is All That Stops a Deadly Curse
“Hope is as important to human survival as air, food, and water. Perhaps more so.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Hope is at once both simple and profound. It is hope that binds Heaven and earth. Hope is the bridge between Heaven and earth.”